Religious practice in the pandemic of COVID-19 and the nursing diagnoses

Abstract

Purpose

Identify the elements (defining characteristics, related factors, and risk factors) of the diagnoses of NANDA international impaired religiosity (00169), risk for impaired religiosity (00170), and readiness for enhanced religiosity (00171), in a period of social distancing in the pandemic of COVID-19, and associate them with the behavior of individual and collective religious practice, before and during the pandemic.

Methods

Survey study, released via social media to members of religious communities in Brazil. Data collection took place in June 2020, by online questionnaire.

Findings

Participants were 719 people, 563 (78.3%) were women, with a median age of 39 years (min 18–max 73), of Catholic religion (64.7%), with a median of 29 years of religious practice (min 0–max 70). The participants were from Southeast 652 (90.68%), South 49 (6.82%), Northeast 13 (1.82%), Midwest 4 (0.56%), and North 01 (0.14%) of Brazil. The increase of individual religious practice was associated with two diagnostic elements and the reduction of individual practice to nine elements. The reduction of collective religious practice was associated with seven diagnostic elements and the maintenance of the practice associated with five elements. The increase of collective religious practice was associated with five diagnostic elements.

Conclusions

In individuals who presented during the pandemic reduction of individual religious practice, reduction of collective religious practice, and maintenance of collective religious practice, the elements of the diagnosis impaired religiosity were predominant. In individuals who presented increased practice of collective religious activity during the pandemic, the elements of the diagnosis readiness for enhanced religiosity were predominant.

Implications for nursing practice

This study highlights defining characteristics, risk factors, and related factors of the religiosity diagnoses presented due to social distancing in the pandemic; these should be screened during nursing consultations in primary health care.

Keywords

COVID-19 nursing diagnosis nursing process pandemics religion social isolation

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